...if you are to gain any great amount of good from the world, you must attain a passive condition of mind. ...it is never to be f...orgotten that it is the rest of the world and not you that holds the great share of the world's wealth, and that you must allow yourself to be acted upon by the world, if you would become a sharer in the gain of all the ages to your own infinite advantage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A pilgrim I on earth perplext,with sinns, with cares and sorrows vext,...By age and paines brought to decay,and my Clay house mouldring away,Oh how I long to be at restand soare on high among the blest!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

God rest you merry, gentlemen,Let nothing you dismay,...For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,Was born upon this day,To save us all from Satan's powerWhen we were gone astray.O tidings of comfort and joy!For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,Was born on Christmas Day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull o...ne book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

God: "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."Moses: "If your presence will not go, do not carry us up from ...here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people, unless you go with us?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear... the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »